The Laran Scrolls: Gorean Quotes

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Much of this scroll was originally collected by Navarre-, First Captain of Kar and was a part of the Karian Notes. We owe Navarre a considerable debt of gratitude for his research and writing on this topic.

Last Updated: 17-Jun-06 -+- 4^th of the 3^rd Passage Hand 10,157 Contasta Ar

Gorean Life To Top
2:37	Then as sleen hunters do for luck , I cut through the fur of the sleen and ate the heart. It is said that only the heart of the mountain larl brings more luck then that of the vicious, cunning sleen.
8:13	"It is said," said Samos, "that only weaklings, and fools, and men who deserve to be slave girls, fall slave to women."
9:9	Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live, they can not tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live, do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so.
17:235	If one is not strong, it is natural to make a virtue of weakness.
19:387	"Such thoughts are surely to be reserved for the Second or Third knowledges." "I am a man, I repudiate the distinctions between knowledges. Knowledge is one. It is only the knowers who are many."
22:456	One must beware of enemies, and the nobler they are, the more dangerous they are.
23:297	Swords are often drawn on Gor over women, and particularly over women. Women are prizes, perfections and treasures. It is no wonder than men will fight over them with such ferocity.
24:213	Ritual is important. It is fulfilling and meaningful. It is beautiful. It is symbolic, mnemonic, and instructive. It establishes protocols. It expresses, defines, and clarifies conditions. It is essential to, and ingredient within, civilization. Similarly, do not overlook the significance and value of symbolism.
	Nothing frustrates the True Warrior more than political necessity.
	A Master is right until proven otherwise, and even then there is some question.
	There are two sexes. They are not the same.
	The laws of a city extend no further than its walls.
	A man who is returning to his city is not to be detained.
	Music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame and when men's hearts are aflame, it is not easy to know where the flames may spread.
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Honor/ Sovereignty To Top
2:28	Whereas I was of high caste and he was of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone.
6:301	With weapons and courage.... They were truly free men, for they could now defend their freedoms, and those who cannot do this are not truly free; at best they are fortunate.
11:241	In a man's hut, he must be Master, even though he has selected out for himself a companion. It is the part of the companion to befriend and aid him, not to insult and drive him.
21:297	It is seldom wise to impugn, or attempt to manipulate, the honour of a Gorean.
21:373	I wonder who truly loves himself, and women, he who is true to himself and his nature, refusing to deny it or pretend it doesn't exist, and who fulfills women, as they really are, or he who betrays himself, who lies to himself and who denies the true needs of women?
25:208	In the end, few things are real, perhaps the weight and glitter of gold, the movement and nature of weapons, a slave at one's feet, and too, perhaps, in spite of all, if we will have it so, defiance, honour, responsibility, courage, discipline, such things, such baubles, such treasures.
25:400	When Goreans get the idea that honour is involved, they sudden become quite difficult to deal with.
	Never underestimate man's ingenuity in masterminding his own destruction.
	If a man understands the priorities of his fellows, he can lead them. If he fails in this, all the good intentions in the world won't buy him loyalty.
	War is the fire that tempers men's souls.
	The man who will not resort to violence must find his own ways to manipulate men.
	Power without ethics is disaster, ethics without power is useless.
	The key to strategy is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.
	A retreating enemy should be allowed all the face he can carry off. Just don't let him carry off anything else.
	There is no more constructive emotion than hatred.
	An uninspired ruler works to develop those relationships which will be most to his advantage. A great ruler determines the most desirable relationships and assumes them into being.
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Slavery & Women To Top
2:54	Her price? Her price is steel.
4:30	The Gorean master, commonly, likes a spirited girl, one who fights the whip and collar, resisting until at last, perhaps months later, she is overwhelmed and must acknowledge herself his, utterly and without reservation, then fearing only that he might tire of her and sell her to another.
11:265	Gorean saying by slave girls: "It is not yet time to serve the wine" It means that the time for the slave to serve the Master's sexual pleasure has not yet arrived, usually used during feasts when a girl is slotted to other duties, such as serving food or a large group.
11:444	A man can truly love only that woman who is truly his, who belongs to him. Otherwise, he is only a party to a contract.
13:458	You are a slave, you are too beautiful to be set free.
16:237	One of the nicest gifts one can give a man is, of course, a beautiful woman.
16:260	They all wear their collars, but each in her collar is different.
17:174	The Gorean Master desires more than a slave's submission, more than merely her body. A Gorean Master is satisfied with nothing less than all of a slave. He will possess you, body and mind, heart and soul. Nothing less is acceptable.
17:210	"The collar is put on from without, but what it encircles comes from within. Slavery, true slavery, comes from within."
17:221	If one has never had a slave, one has never had a woman.
17:222	Within a given amount of time, say half an ahn, some women can resist some men. Given a longer amount of time, however, any woman may be made to yield, whether she wishes to or not, by any man.
17:225	Much can be told of the responsiveness of a girl by how she moves beneath the whip.
17:235	If men refuse the mastery, someone else must assume it. There are always Masters, whether one pretends it is not so, or not.
17:259	Beauty in a slave does not excuse poor service.
17:272	No female is a woman, who has not been made a slave.
19:63	A thousand times better a collar on Gor, than freedom on Earth - a slave girl.
19:137	There are only two kinds of women; slaves, and slaves.
20:176	Nothing fulfills maleness like Mastery. He who would be a man, must be a Master. He who surrenders his Mastery, surrenders his manhood.
20:176	"What is it that a man wants from a woman?", asked Samos. "Everything, and more," she whispered. "Precisely."
20:176	Your audacity borders on obscenity.
20:227	How should I put this delicately? Perhaps thusly; Insubordination in any form, of any sort, in even the tiniest, least significant degree, is not accepted from slave girls by their Gorean Masters.
21:231	She said, "It is a thousand times better to be the slave of a Gorean Master, than to be an Empress on Earth.
21:318	A love slave is still a slave, you see, and perhaps more a slave than any other. She is held in her bondage by the strongest of all bonds, that of love.
21:322	The most fundamental property prized by Goreans in women is their need for love, and their capacity for love. That is the kind of woman a man wants, ultimately, one who is helplessly and totally love's captive, in his collar.
22:72	Be beautiful. Be only afraid that you are so superb, not so afraid that you are awkward or clumsy.
22:154	"The Masters call us 'slave meat', and such, and perhaps this amuses them, and helps keep us in our place, at their feet, but only a woman who is a fool believes them. They want, and own, the whole slave" - a slave girl
22:167	The husk of a she-sleen can be torn away, never to grow again, leaving behind only the soft flesh of another slave.
22:189	"What does a slave owe a Master?" he asked. "Everything, and then a thousand times more," she whispered.
22:211	If a command needs to be repeated, the kajir needs to be punished.
22:250	"Men had done much to me on Gor. They had, imperiously, for their amusement and pleasure, summoned forth from me my latent slavery, a slavery which on Earth, I had hardly dared acknowledge. They had taught me how to feel. They had required that I show my slavery, and yield to it, wholly and honestly. They would let me be the slave that I was, lovingly and helplessly. I loved them for it!" - Tuka, slave dancer
22:273	The slave who lies about her slavery is not thereby the less a slave. It is only that she is then a lying slave.
22:421	Many Gorean men, in their vanity, will not admit to caring for slaves. Even the thought of it, it seems, would embarrass them. Who would care for a meaningless slut in a collar? Yet, too often, for just such women, luscious and helpless, and in bondage, men are prepared to kill. Indeed, more than one war on Gor has been fought to recover a single slave.
23:101	The wholisticality of the female response is interesting. Their response is a whole, physical, emotional, and intellectual. Men have sex. Women are sex.
23:127	A woman's defenses are not steel, but such things are her helplessness and vulnerability, and her capacity to give astounding pleasure.
23:218	"I am afraid," she said. "I will defend you, as I can," he said. "Do not risk your life for me," she said. "Why not?" he said. "Because I am really only a slave girl, " she said. "It is for such that men most cheerfully risk their lives," he said. "Oh?" she said. "Certainly," he said, "you would not expect them to go to all that trouble for a mere free female, would you?" "Monster," she said.
23:243	A Master to a slave-girl: "In your weakness and need, and love, in your honesty and truth, you are a thousand times stronger, and greater, than such caricatures of women, than such travesties of women, than such pseudomales and facsimile men, denying themselves and their feelings, holding themselves rigid, not daring to feel or be themselves."
23:285	If slavery were truly a fate worse than death, or even so unfortunate a lot, it seems it would be very hard to understand the happiness of the female slave, their emotional fulfillments, their ecstasies, their willingness to die for their Masters.
23:359	It is not merely pleasant to own a slave, to dress her as you please, if you wish to permit her clothing, to have her at your bidding, to do with her as you please; it is exalting. The man who has not owned a slave has no conception of the maximums of sexuality, nor as the woman who has not been owned.
23:404	The relationship of slave to Master is the relation of total helpless intimacy.
24:22	It is easy to reform a woman's character once she is in the collar.
24:219	In the submission of a female slave to a Master, the slave submits to the principle of masculinity, embodied in him. In this submission, the female slave recognizes the rights of masculinity and fulfills herself by submitting her femininity to it.
24:219	Few men, once they have caught the scent of Mastery, and surely once they have tasted its deliciousness, will even consider its surrender.
24:245	All women belong in the collars, for theirs is the slave sex.
24:260	The female slave, in her excitement and beauty, is an embodiment of sensuality, love, and service.
24:270	All women are beautiful in chains.
24:271	Wars have been fought to obtain the beautiful slaves of another city.
24:357	One of the great pleasures in the Master, increasing the sense of it's joy and power, is forcing the female to experience, at your will and convenience, incredible pleasures, carrying her up and down, and through, a series of slave orgasms, making her more and more helpless, until she is irremediably yours, lost in the throes of her submission ecstacies.
25:13	It is seldom wise to interfere in the relationship between a Master and his slave.
25:31	The love of a slave girl is the deepest and most profound love that any woman can give a man. Love makes a woman a man's slave, and the wholeness of that love requires that she be, in truth, his slave. With nothing less can she be fully, and institutionally, content.
25:127	The relationship of the Master to the slave is unilateral. All the power is with the Master. The slave does not keep the Master, the Master keeps the slave. Let the slave strive, then for excellence, to convince the Master to keep her.
25:204	Beauty and intelligence are all well and good, but the best slave is she who loves the most deeply.
25:234	But do not fear. I am certain, sooner or later, you will come into the possession of one who will not only accept your slavery, in its beauty, in its tenderness and needfulness, in its honesty and truth, but will celebrate it and relish it, and for whom you will be a treasure, an incredible and marvelous treasure, to be sure, one to be kept under the closest of disciplines.
25:323	An errant slave may be disciplined by any Free Man Her slavery does not exist only in the presence of her Master. It is uncompromised, catagorical, and absolute, at any moment, wherever she is.
25:337	The experience is a totalistic one, which occurs in an entire context. It is thus that a woman does not fully understand what it is to be a slave, until she becomes a slave. Once she is owned, of course, and subject to the whip, she will learn her condition. Kneeling before her Master, she will soon apprehend something of it's joys, duties, and terrors.
25:343	Then she was trembling, and gasping for breath, clinging to him. He, too, gasped, and then suddenly he laughed, a mighty laugh, almost a roar, a laugh of triumph, like an exaltant larl, joyful in his Mastery of her beauty.
25:387	Between a slave and a free person, only one can be the Master. It is the Gorean Way.
25:397	It is appropriate that a female slave be sexually alive, vital, and responsive. Surrender to your deepest needs, and desires, to your most profound and helpless passions, to those truths hitherto concealed in the most secret recesses of your body.
25:438	"But I am only a collared slave!" "And they are the most beautiful and exciting of all women. Wars have been fought for them."
25:464	There is only one way to have a woman wholly, and that is for her to be your slave, for you to own her.
25:476	"On the whole, if a slave is pleasing, and is striving to serve with perfection, I believe in treating her with kindness." - Tarl Cabot
	Until one has seen needful slaves, one has not seen women.
	Serious or grievious disciplines should be the prerogative of the Owning Master.
	No two Masters are the same except in so far as each is the total Master, just as no two slaves are the same, except that each is the total slave.
	The other side of the coin of freedom is bondage. One cannot exist without the other. The Master is free, and the slave is bound.
	A Master is more likely to be kinder to an unskilled girl who is zealous, than to a skilled one who permits her performance to lapse from standards of perfection.
	Any woman who dares to appear before men and dance, is in her heart, a slave. Let her then be collared!
	Only a fool buys a clothed woman.
	It is said that the women of Earth are natural slaves, awaiting only the touch of a Master.

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